Raymond Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. en.wikipedia.org In this clip, Ray discusses why we should consider ourselves to be "patterns of information," and how using this conception... View MoreRaymond Kurzweil is an American inventor and futurist. He is involved in fields as diverse as optical character recognition (OCR), text-to-speech synthesis, speech recognition technology, and electronic keyboard instruments. He is the author of several books on health, artificial intelligence (AI), transhumanism, the technological singularity, and futurism. en.wikipedia.org In this clip, Ray discusses why we should consider ourselves to be "patterns of information," and how using this conception we can imagine a future when non-biological systems can be both conscious and match (or exceed) present levels of human intelligence.